Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Also known as: 上海译文出版社等
- Founded
- 1978
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- Never Let Me GoLes Misérables (2 Volumes)Peak Works of 20th-Century English Literature (27-Volume Set)
About the publisher
Shanghai Translation Publishing House is a Chinese publisher oriented mainly toward translation and publishing. Its publications cover foreign literature, world classics and classic works, as well as social culture, folk literature and classical poetry. The database contains 2,618 titles, including Never Let Me Go, Les Misérables (2 volumes), Don Quixote (illustrated collector's edition), The Complete Comedies of Molière (4 volumes), The Complete Novels of Kafka (3 volumes), The Collected Works of Dostoevsky (9-volume set), Reason and Persons, and Oedipus Rex (Translation Classics). Its author resources include foreign writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Victor Hugo, Cervantes and Molière, as well as translators such as Zheng Kelu, Sun Jiameng, Li Jianwu and Zhang Kun. The publisher has brands such as "Translation Classics Selections" and "Translation Documentary," and emphasizes translated works in foreign literature and the humanities and social sciences, while also publishing bilingual dictionaries and foreign-language educational books. Public information is limited; the above is based on the book information in the database.
Frequent authors
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (71)Haruki Murakami (68)Marguerite Duras (66)Ernest Miller Hemingway (62)George Orwell (59)William Shakespeare (59)Jorge Luis Borges (58)Ian McEwan (56)Susan Sontag (52)Alain de Botton (47)Lin Shaohua (46)W. Somerset Maugham (39)